Acrididea

Acrididea
	Teratodes monticollis (Acrididae)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Infraorder:	Acrididea; MacLeay, 1821
Superfamily group and superfamily
	Acridomorpha; Tetrigoidea;

Short description: Infraorder of grasshoppers

Acrididea including the Acridomorpha^[3] is an infraorder of insects that describe the grasshoppers (thus also locusts) and ground-hoppers. It contains a large majority of species in the suborder Caelifera and the taxon Acridomorpha may also be used, which excludes the Tetrigoidea.^[4] Both names are derived from older texts, such as Imms,^[5] which placed the "short-horned grasshoppers" and locusts at the family level (Acrididae). The study of grasshopper species is called acridology.

Acridomorpha

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following superfamilies: most families and species belong to the Acridoidea.

Acridoidea (MacLeay, 1821)
Eumastacoidea Burr, 1899
- Chorotypidae Stål, 1873
- Episactidae Burr, 1899
- Eumastacidae Burr, 1899
- Euschmidtiidae Rehn, 1948
- Mastacideidae Rehn, 1948
- Morabidae Rehn, 1948
- †Promastacidae Kevan & Wighton, 1981
- Thericleidae Burr, 1899
†Locustopsoidea Handlirsch, 1906
- †Bouretidae Martins-Neto, 2001
- †Eolocustopsidae Riek, 1976
- †Locustavidae Sharov, 1968
- †Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906
Pneumoroidea Thunberg, 1810 (monotypic)
Proscopioidea Serville, 1838 (monotypic)
Pyrgomorphoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874 (monotypic)
Tanaoceroidea Rehn, 1948 (monotypic)
Trigonopterygoidea Walker, 1870
- Trigonopterygidae Walker, 1870
- Xyronotidae Bolívar, 1909

References

↑ MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").
↑ Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.
↑ Orthoptera Specis File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
↑ Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)
↑ Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) A General Textbook of Entomology 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q20857752 entry

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[1] MacLeay WS (1821) Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals (from www.biodiversitylibrary.org originally as "Acridina").

[2] Kevan DKM (1982) In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2: 371.

[3] Orthoptera Specis File: infraorder Acrididea (Retrieved 20/7/2017)

[4] Encyclopedia of Life: Acridomorpha (Retrieved 20/7/2017)

[Imms-5] Imms AD, rev. Richards OW & Davies RG (1970) A General Textbook of Entomology 9th Ed. Methuen 886 pp.

Acrididea

Teratodes monticollis (Acrididae)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Infraorder:	Acrididea MacLeay, 1821^[1]^[2]
Superfamily group and superfamily
Acridomorpha Tetrigoidea